NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2017

The Canadian Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario hosted a LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP inclusiveness training on June 6.

An innovative instrument on a telescope in Chile has discovered 72 previously hidden galaxies dating back 13 billion years, shortly after the formation of the universe.

Despite recent improvements, the U.S. and Canada have a long way to go toward ridding the Great Lakes of pollution that endangers human health and the environment, an advisory agency said Tuesday.

An analysis of dozens of blogs that question the threat climate change poses to polar bears has found the writers ignore virtually all the science on bears and sea ice.

A new study released Thursday by a team of international researchers is shedding light on where the iconic birds travel in winter, and how their destination may affect their ultimate survival.

Ed Hervey, former Edmonton Eskimos general manager and player, joins Wally Buono to remain head coach for one final season.

Brock Boeser had two goals and an assist, Daniel Sedin surpassed 1,000 career points and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Nashville Predators 5-3 on Thursday night.

A coalition of First Nations in Alberta and the Northwest Territories whose lands are downstream from B.C.'s Site C dam called on Premier John Horgan to cancel the project on the same day cabinet ministers consulted with energy experts.

Sun is forecast for Metro Vancouver, finally, after 20 consecutive days of rain and counting. The run of wet ties Vancouver for the fourth wettest November since weather records were kept.

A drone has captured chilling footage of a what appears to be a dangerous tiger shark swimming close to beachgoers in Miami.

Fisherman Karissa Lindstrand drinks a lot of Pepsi every day -- so imagine her surprise as she was banding lobster claws and came across a lobster with the image of a Pepsi can on it.

The team says doctors recommended he not return to the ice because of "long-term, significant health risks."

Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV star as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favourite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, died Thursday. He was 87.

A British Columbia woman who killed 14-year-old Reena Virk near a Victoria-area bridge two decades ago has been given conditional approval for day parole.

Canada's top court agreed on Thursday to weigh in on a case in which the ability of journalists to do their work conflicts with the ability of police and prosecutors to do theirs.

Qatar is running out of sand.

Andrew Scheer walked up to a podium outside the House of Commons on Wednesday and did what has seemed inevitable for months. After the drip, drip, drip of problems for the finance minister, Scheer called for Bill Morneau to go.

The Conservatives are insinuating that the Liberals are soft on terrorists. Justin Trudeau shot back, accusing the Tories of scaremongering. Is the government putting Canadians at risk with its approach to returning ISIL members?

A new $60-million university institute in Nova Scotia celebrating former prime minister Brian Mulroney got a good chunk of that financing from donors embroiled in international controversy, a joint investigation by CBC/Radio-Canada and the Toronto Star ha

For its next phase to attract applicants, the province this week will start holding sessions that allow would-be recipients to apply and ask questions in person. The first one is in Hamilton on Wednesday.

He yelled a sexually explicit phrase at a female reporter outside police headquarters, police say.

Slobodan Praljak, a former Bosnian-Croat general, killed himself on camera at The Hague on Wednesday as a judge upheld his 20-year sentence for war crimes, it has been reported.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci broke past practice Tuesday by suggesting government would like public sector unions like AUPE to accept no salary increases in their current contract talks.

A federal court judge has ruled that Canada's domestic spy agency can continue to use contentious cellphone surveillance devices without a warrant, in some cases.

The national rental vacancy rate has taken a dive and rental horror stories are growing, forcing renters to consider whether the payoffs of living in a big city are worth the cost, both financially and in terms of quality of life.

A federal judge has rejected the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's request to obtain basic information about unknown phone and internet subscribers who may come to the spy agency's attention in future.

The Canadian Surface Combatant ships will serve as replacements to the country's three recently retired Iroquois-class destroyers and the 12 Halifax-class multi-role patrol frigates.

Relatives of at least four young Quebecers who have started families with ISIS militants hope their daughters will be able to return to Canada, now that the group appears to have lost major territorial control in Syria and Iraq.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wiped his eye while he was applauded for making a formal apology to individuals harmed by federal legislation, policies, and practices that led to the oppression of and discrimination against LGBTQ2 people in Canada, in the H

Long before internet hoaxes were a thing, people passed around grainy photos and blurry videos they claimed proved the existence of a so-called abominable snowman. DNA analysis on purported "Yeti" specimens found they belonged to three kinds of bears and

The federal government is launching litigation via the World Trade Organization against over anti-dumping and countervailing duties the U.S. Department of Commerce has set on softwood lumber imports from Canada.

The conservative mayor of a small town in western Germany who is known for his liberal policy toward asylum seekers has been slashed in the neck by an assailant.

A collaborative effort between the Yale Privacy Lab and Exodus Privacy has shed light on dozens of invasive trackers that are embedded within Android applications and record user activity, sometimes without user consent.

Bids start rolling in for the design of the navy's new warship, as federal officials scramble to ensure the $60 billion project remains on track.

A snowy owl rescued from an east Edmonton ditch will spend at least a year in care after apparently surviving a flight through a flare.

The Middlesex-London Health Unit says more than 132 cases of infection have been reported since April 1, 2016

A cat named Dexter has returned home to Vernon, B.C., after spending five months lost in the back country near Revelstoke. The family searched and put up posters, but eventually gave up hope of ever finding him.

CTV News has obtained video footage that shows a farmed-salmon processing plant in the Discovery Passage channel off Vancouver Island discharging bloody effluent from a pipe under the water -- effluent that tests have shown contains a highly contagious fi

The plan to use women to launch the Islamic State's next incarnation involves female returnees teaching the glories of the caliphate to their offspring

The Liberals' housing proposal came as the provinces were still steaming over a federal plan to split marijuana revenue 50-50

The parents of a southern Alberta autistic girl are warning other parents that had Bill 24 been the law over the past two years, their 14-year-old daughter very likely could have committed suicide.

The site's search feature has been changed after paedophilic phrases appeared.

Prince Harry, 33, and Meghan Markle, 36, have today revealed they are engaged after the Queen gave her grandson -who is fifth in line to the throne - permission to marry the star.

A chilling poster showing a wolf overlooking St Peter's Square in Rome, Italy, urges supporters of the terror group to 'show Crusaders the meaning of terrorism'.

At least 30 migrants died and 200 were rescued after they were set on by sharks during a crossing from Africa, Libya's navy has said. Some 18 women and three children were among the dead.

Bodies that had been reduced to skeletons were found on Monday in a small wooden ship that washed up on a beach in northern Japan, the country's coast guard said.

Marlene Bird, who was brutally beaten and then set on fire in 2014, has passed away.

There are signs of a new world order in global electricity. Costs are plunging and Alberta is on the leading edge of a new pricing regime helping to turn the energy world upside down.

A Norwegian reindeer herder says that freight trains have killed more than 100 of the animals on the tracks in three days. Appfjell represents four families in the area with a total of around 2,000 reindeer. He said that in the worst previous 12-month per

Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said on Monday it had raised the alert to the highest level four on Bali's Mount Agung volcano and warned residents in an eight to 10 kilometre radius radius around the volcano to evacuate the area immediately.

Fatal mistakes late in the game cost the Calgary Stampeders a shot at redemption Sunday as they were defeated in the Grey Cup for a second straight year, this time 27-24 at the hands of the Toronto Argonauts.

The vessel with 3.5 million litres of diesel and 468,000 litres of gasoline on board broke free from its tugboat Sunday afternoon. Maritime rescue officials say the barge is anchored in place 1.6 kilometres from nearby islands.

A social media savvy great white shark is extending his much-watched sojourn in Atlantic Canada, in what one researcher is calling further evidence that Nova Scotia's waters may be a hot spot in the shark mating scene.

A small aircraft with two people onboard has gone missing en route from Penticton, B.C., to Edmonton. The pilot's cell phone signal was last picked up twenty kilometres north of Revelstoke, B.C.

The young black bear, which has been spotted in a farmer's field along Highway 22 every few days for the past few months, favours one of its hind legs and doesn't allow it to touch the ground.

The ship became disabled and drifting offshore, but a tugboat has managed to secure a tow line. The ship was tied up in Argentia in September 2014 after running into engine troubles offshore.

When the great explorer Ernest Shackleton was preparing to go the Antarctic in the early 1900s, he contacted a Manitoba fisherman in Gimli to get the sled dogs for the journey.

A famous dagger found in the wrapping of Egyptian King Tutankhamun's mummy was made with iron from a meteorite, a new study confirms. An analysis of the dagger's blade led by Daniela Comelli, a professor of materials science at the Polytechnic University

​Lirim Hajrullahu kicked a 32-yard field goal with 53 seconds left shortly after Toronto tied the game on Cassius Vaughn's Grey Cup-record 109-yard fumble return, and the Argonauts stunned the Calgary Stampeders 27-24 in the 105th Grey Cup final.

A criminal justice college in New York City is embroiled in a battle with the Pentagon over exhibiting and helping to sell artwork by suspected al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.

The Antifa member is being sued on the basis of repeatedly threatening and harassing various people at the University of California, Berkele...

People who sell e-cigarettes in Ontario are trying to dissuade the Wynne government from imposing new restrictions on how vape shops can market their products.

The only indirect clue was at the bottom of the screen: The "Live" graphic that normally appears was removed

Police say a warrant was already issued for the teen's arrest on an auto theft charge

India and China are taking a cue from the United States and wondering why they need to make environmental sacrifices

Currently, gasoline in Canada can contain up to 10 per cent ethanol, but a proposed amendment could raise the maximum to 15 per cent in early 2018

Highly respected surgeon Colin Baillie praised a toddler's father for helping out 'manfully' when her mother was ill. But the mother, from Chorley, Lancashire, accused him of sexism.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologizes to former students of Newfoundland and Labrador residential schools, acknowledging words alone aren't enough to heal the wounds, and the apology is accepted by an emotional Toby Obed.

Archeologists in Turkey have discovered an ancient fortress half-buried at the bottom of Lake Van, where the alkaline waters have kept the structure well-preserved for approximately 3,000 years.

Key videos at the trial of a Halifax man accused of killing an off-duty police officer have been released to the media, including one showing a man wheeling a compost bin that was allegedly used to dump Catherine Campbell's body.

Chris Spring and Neville Wright won a World Cup two-man bobsled race on Friday night, leading a gold-silver finish for the host Canadians. Spring and Wright barely held off fellow countrymen Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz, winning by just two-hundredt

A bichon Shih Tzu named Bailey is recovering after being attacked by a great horned owl in Sherwood Park. It's the first time Labrentz has seen an owl in the 25 years she's been living in Sherwood Park. But it's not the only recent sighting.

A man and his 12-year-old son who got lost while hunting in southeastern Manitoba are safe and sound after being found with the help of a police dog. They became lost and after several hours of trying to find their way back, they called the RCMP at about

Police in Paris say a tiger escaped from a circus in the city and roamed the streets of the French capital for 'some time' before being killed. Residents in the 15th district where the tiger was shot circulated photos of the beast's limp corpse on social

Police in five African countries arrested 40 suspected human traffickers and rescued hundreds of victims -- including 236 minors -- in an exceptionally large-scale Interpol-led operation.

In the deadliest-ever attack by Islamic extremists in Egypt, militants assaulted a crowded mosque Friday during prayers, blasting helpless worshippers with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades and blocking their escape routes. At least 235 people were ki

Chester the false killer whale, has died, according to the Vancouver Aquarium. Chester arrived at the Vancouver Aquarium in July 2014 after Tofino residents discovered the undernourished and dehydrated calf on nearby North Chesterman Beach.

MMIWG witness Carol Wolfe says the Saskatoon Police Service helped her through her daughter Karina's disappearance. "They were the voice for my daughter," she said of the police plus victims services and other women who walked in search of Karina.

"BeaverTail" or "Canadian Semiaquatic Rodent Posterior Doughnut"? A very Canadian dispute over what to call the popular flat doughnut-like pastry has turned into an unexpected windfall for a food bank.

Residents of a seven-story apartment block in Calgary's Kensington area came home Thursday to a sign on the door that said "do not occupy, with officials telling them they had 15 minutes to pack some belongings and evacuate the building.

It's a view of Earth you've likely never seen: a living, breathing Earth. The animation illustrates the changing seasons, from a snow-covered Canada to the waning and waxing ice of the Arctic and Antarctic.

Clearwater RCMP shot and killed a cougar in a residential area after it killed a pet cat and displayed abnormal behaviours around people. "It had no fear of anything," Simpson said. "You could tell by looking at it, it was obviously very hungry."

A Canadian Pacific Railway train derailed Thursday morning. Officials have confirmed Friday morning that the derailment resulted in a fuel spill into the Fraser River.

The man and the boy were found walking towards Hall Beach, Nunavut after search and rescue teams spent four days out on the land looking for them. Paul Sr. Quliktalik, and Mark Qulitalik,13, set out on the approximately 70-kilometre journey shortly after

Haitians, who represent the biggest group of migrants, are only accepted at a rate of about 10%.

A Melbourne disability pensioner charged with funding Islamic State fighters in Syria has been freed on a $50,000 surety.

Ottawa has long come under fire by Canada's domestic tech firms for spending too much IT money on U.S. tech giants. Now an internal memo that documents for the first time Ottawa's IT spending suggests the criticisms are valid, and that Ottawa should be gi

Billionaire tech executive, Eric Schmidt, opens up about the challenges of ranking information fairly in the current climate of opposing opinions.

Egyptian state news agency MENA reports that 115 people have been killed in a bombing and shooting attack on a Sufi mosque

Manitoba Judge Vic Toews has dropped his court challenge of a federal ethic's commissioner ruling that found he violated the Conflict of Interest Act when he received money from two Manitoba First Nations.

Miguel Lopez-Abrego, 19, a citizen of El Salvador who is in the United States illegally, made his first court appearance in Montgomery County on Wednesday. He was denied bond.

Of 1,500 Senate of Canada Sesquicentennial Medals struck by the Royal Canadian Mint for a cost of $225,000, 47 were awarded to current and former senators

Sarah Hall, from Northumberland Park, North Shields, demanded her six-year-old son's school ban the story after claiming it promotes an 'inappropriate sexual' message' to children.

The seven-foot robot which has metal claws, a domed head and speaks 188 languages, starred in the 1956 film as the servant of Dr Morbius on Altair IV - known as the Forbidden Planet.

The Girl Scouts of the USA have warned parents not to force their daughters to hug relatives at Christmas in case they start to believe they owe intimacy to people for gifts or other reasons.

A Leamington, Ont. man has broken the record for highest number of bird species spotted in Ontario in a single year. On Monday he spotted a Northern Gannet in Hamilton, which marked bird species number 344, breaking the record held by one of his best frie

A photo taken in Yellowknife of a bowl of ramen noodles with the chopsticks suspended frozen in place has been viewed more than 573,000 times on Reddit alone.

Three people had to be rescued from their vehicles after several mudslides closed a section of the Trans-Canada Highway in the Fraser Valley on Wednesday night. The highway won't be fully open again until Saturday, according to the Ministry of Transportat

A Prince Rupert, B.C., deer who made international headlines for wandering around town with a purple hammock on his head no longer has his eye-catching headwear.

Tesla Inc. is on track to meet a 100-day self-imposed deadline to install the system

Nunavut experienced some 'strange' weather in the past few days, causing shipping containers to fly through one community and muddy puddles in another.

Canada's immigration minister says changes must be made to current rules barring potential immigrants from settling in the country if they're deemed to place excessive demand on the medical or social system.

The Ottawa inventor of the Instant Pot electric pressure cooker believes he can sell half a million devices in one day on Black Friday. The gadget has already set sales records on Amazon and continues to grow in popularity both in the US and Canada.

Charges have been dropped against a Calgary man accused in a fatal hit and run after the judge ruled police behaved improperly during their interrogation of the suspect.

Whoever was behind 1987 Chicago "broadcast intrusion" is the D.B. Cooper of media hacking.

Police in Grande Prairie are warning about a new computer scam that masquerades as an official government email.

By the time symptoms appear, patients are often in tremendous pain, with just a few months to live

As Haitians look to the end of the protected status that allowed them to live and work in the U.S., a Canadian MP meets with local officials in New York to stress that coming to Canada won't solve Haitians' problems.

North Korea is being accused of violating a 1953 armistice agreement after its soldiers fired across the line that divides North and South Korea while chasing after a defector.